Unions vowed to maintain their open-ended industrial action despite of dwindling turnout. On Thursday, only 10 percent of workers at the state-run SNCF company stopped working, compared with more than half when the strikes began on Dec. 5 2019.
The sign of fatigue appeared after the government offered concession to temporally remove the most contested measure of "pivotal age" which encourages workers to extend their careers by two years to 64 to have full pension.
As unions' anger endures, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the strikes were "dead end" as "the government's determination to set up this universal pension system and therefore to eventually remove the special schemes is total."
"The transport strike against pension reform will go nowhere, the government is determined," Philippe said on Wednesday.
Widely seen as a taboo, pension overhaul had failed during the previous governments.
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